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2nd Prince of Tennis Best Games OVA Ships on June 25
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for the Tennis no Ōjisama BEST GAMES!! original video anime (OVA) project announced on Saturday that the second OVA in the series will ship on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on June 25. Prior to the release, the OVA will get a two-week event screening in Japan starting on April 5.
The second OVA will feature two doubles matches: the first match is Shuichiro Oishi and Eiji Kikumaru's game against Hiroshi Yagyū and Masaharu Niō, while the second match is Ryō Shishido and Chōtarō Otori's game against Sahadaru Inui and Kaoru Kaidō.
The OVA project retells the story of the franchise's top matches. The first OVA, which features a match between Tezuka and Atobe from the Kantō Tournament, began its limited two-week screening in Japan in August, and shipped in Japan on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on October 26. The third OVA will feature a match between Shūsuke Fuji and Akaya Kirihara from the Kantō Tournament.
Ryōtarō Okiayu, Junichi Suwabe, and Junko Minagawa are reprising their respective roles as Kunimitsu Tezuka, Keigo Atobe, and Ryōma Echizen.
Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Mayo Chiki!, Hayate the Combat Butler) is directing the project at M.S.C. Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II, The Prince of Tennis II OVA vs. Genius 10) is returning to handle series composition and write the scripts. Akiharu Ishii is again designing the characters, and Cher Watanabe is returning to compose the music. The ending song is "You got game?," the first ending theme song for the first The Prince of Tennis anime, by Junko Minagawa as her character Ryōma Echizen.
Source: The Prince of Tennis anime's website, Comic Natalie
